http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2998 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Driver Magician v3.28 writing registry entries from v3.16 en-US Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:00:37 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2998#post-23987 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:11:06 +0000 Mercurius 23987@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Robert,</p> <p>thanks for a quick reply but I'm sorry to say, Live Update has been to no avail. </p> <p>Early in the morning I tried to post this on the main site but wasn't allowed to ("Please comment only on the software").<br /> From my point of view though, this topic IS with no doubt software-related simply because it deals with a couple of wrong registry entries generated during regular setup.</p> <p>That said, I nevertheless hope the public on this forum will suffice to find a solution. The thingy seems to be ... an issue. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2998#post-23975 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:22 +0000 LeKanaw 23975@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Hi Robert<br /> Humm, I did the update. I thought there was *1*<br /> How do u mean *2*? But if I missed it, could I do it now?<br /> You were talking about the *database*, right? Not the upgrade from 3.26 to 3.28</p> <p>Thank You </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2998#post-23971 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:05:37 +0000 Robert 23971@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Try running live update..there are two database *updates* available.<br /> This should help.<br /> :) </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2998#post-23969 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:50:28 +0000 Mercurius 23969@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Weird! Is it sort of an admixture with this software's "magic" that it is writing old registry entries?<br /> I cannot believe that it's only me. Presumably many a GOTD visitor will find a somehow undigestable "registry Easter egg" (though a tad late) when (s)he is going to look at the following key:<br /> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Driver Magician</p> <p> Here is what the current setup.exe (v3.28) has written in any of my 4 installation attempts: </p> <p> "endtrialtime" "3-30-&lt;b&gt;2007&lt;/b&gt;"<br /> "firsttime" "3-15-&lt;b&gt;2007&lt;/b&gt;"<br /> "lastvalid" "493...CE3"<br /> "serialnumber" "........." (which is DIFFERENT from the one I stored from v3.26)<br /> "username" "........." (which is INSIGNIFICANTLY different from the one I stored from v3.26)<br /> "Version" "&lt;b&gt;3.16&lt;/b&gt;"</p> <p> My laptop I've installed v3.28 on has seen the prior GOTD version 3.26 but &lt;i&gt;no other&lt;/i&gt;.<br /> On both of my pc I have gotten the same old entries (3.16) even though the version number under Help-About is displayed &lt;b&gt;correctly&lt;/b&gt;.</p> <p> This crazy thing could be negligible if there was no impact on the functionality itself but there is! Here's why: Despite the version number showing 3.28 the program would find and list four ATI drivers deriving from two old AGP graphics cards that were deinstalled months ago.<br /> The backup of ALL the drivers found including the aforesaid ATI drivers resulted in a quadruple of 120 obsolete files each quarter of which (30) being &lt;i&gt;identical&lt;/i&gt; to the corresponding files of my current AGP graphics card.</p> <p> So, what's up? Left over registry entries? From a version never installed?!<br /> Even more so as I had cleaned the registry from every entry pointing directly or indirectly to "DM" before I performed the second installation.</p> <p> Anybody who's giving a hint? </p>